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A better model for brain death needed
Medical Xpress Process variations related to brain death have far-reaching implications beyond delaying an official declaration of death, including added stress for the patient’s family, missed opportunities for organ donation and increased costs of care, according … |
Death toll from Ramkamhaeng clash reaches fourThe NationColonel Peerapol Pokpong, director of Emergency Department of the hospital, said Thanasit died yesterday morning. He was in the brain-death stage after being sent to the hospital. He was the fourt…
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Uniform Protocols, Standards for Determining Brain Death Needed
Science Daily (press release) Dec. 2, 2013 — Process variations related to brain death have far-reaching implications beyond delaying an official declaration of death, including added stress for the patient’s family, missed opportunities for organ donation and increased costs of … |
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Clear Standards, Protocols for Brain Death Offer Benefits
Laboratory Equipment Process variations related to brain death have far-reaching implications beyond delaying an official declaration of death, including added stress for the patient’s family, missed opportunities for organ donation and increased costs of care, according … |
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Uniform Protocols, Clear Standards For Determining Brain Death Would Offer …
Newswise (press release) Newswise — Process variations related to brain death have far-reaching implications beyond delaying an official declaration of death, including added stress for the patient’s family, missed opportunities for organ donation and increased costs of care, … |
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Patient who received kidney of young woman who died hours after giving birth …
Daily Mail A CT scan carried out after brain death revealed a very large brain stem tumour on the right side. Mrs Kramer said: ‘I honestly didn’t know what was the matter, but everyone seemed convinced she was just having a bad pregnancy. ‘It didn’t have to kill her. |
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Brain-dead law to ease transplants
Times of India Once the declaration becomes a must, each hospital will have a brain-death committee, comprising a neurologist, anaesthesiologist, a critical care expert and the director of the hospital. The committee declares a patient dead when the patient’s brain … |
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Brain-Dead Woman Delivers Healthy Baby In Hungary
XpatLoop.com Normally, the organs cannot be kept in a condition fit enough for transplant for one or two weeks after brain death. In this case the woman’s organs remained fit three months after brain death. A pediatrician attending the news conference on November … |
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Brain Death Rates Falling
Medscape “We found that the proportion of critically ill patients with various forms of brain injury who progress to brain death is half that 10 years ago,” Dr. Kramer told Medscape Medical News. “In 2002, we were seeing rates of 8% to 9%, and by 2010 this … |
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Toddler’s Death Sparks Investigation, Controversy
WTAJ Court documents show the toddler, Sophia, had some symptoms, that could be associated with Shaken Baby Syndrome, before she died the morning of November 17th from what doctors call a “brain death” at Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital. When Sophia died … |